The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-02-03
A BIG CLUB OF RICH MEN.
ONLY ELEVEN OF THE SENATOR'S ARE
MlLLIONAIRES


| Wen Filled
WASHINGTON, January 29.-Whenever
| hear anybody talking about tho United
States Senate as "club Of millionaircs''
L feel like saying, as Senator Joe Brown
SAID to tho newspaper man who asked
him II he were worth $40, 600, ,00O.-
'Goun8 man 81 900, 900 is Il great deal
OF money" Tho truth iB there are very
few mlilionaires in the Senate. l have
Just gone carefully over the list, and out
OF the c'scyenty-siN ] can only find eleven
millionnircG, and do not feel very GER
tam about all of them. OF course one
can never feel sure about the wealth Of
any man in Amcrica-oxccpt that it is
exaggerated by popular report. But
here is my list: Brown, of Georgia;
Camden, of West Virginia; Cameron, of
Pennsylvania; Fair, Of Nevada; Hale, of
Mnin"; Mahonc, of Virginia; Palmer, of
Michigan; Payne, Of Ohio; Sawyer, of
Wisconsin; Sherman, of Ohio, and
Stanford, Of California.
STAMFORD At TIE TOP OF THE HEAP.
OF these Stanford is by far the richest.
lbs wealth is largely Gin sight" and may
be safely put, ! suppose, at $40, 600, 900,
chiefly made and chiefly kept in rail
roads and real estate. But Stanford can
well be rcckoncd III the dangerous
classes" J." Next, l. should say, stands
Fair, and Fair, Flood, Nlackcy and
| OBricu whose wealth was and largely is
speculative, but who is rated at about
$40, ,O0O, COG by well informed men. Then
comes Old Joe Brown, of Georgia, with
his railroads. and real estate and his coal
mines, valued by experts ut -, coo, 600.
paynC, Of OHIO, with his real estate and
oil; Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and
Camden, Of West Virginia, with their
railroads and real estate, arc millionaires.
ToWAED TIE END OF TIE LIST.
Palmer, of Michigan, and Sawyer, of
Wisconsin, with their lumber and their
real estate, come next, and then as the
tile cl0avrs ! would rank Sherman, with
his real estate, Malone, with his sDccu-
lHtlve ra1tWay stocks, and Hale, with his
WllcS fortune i'll thr rear. J. 10 not feel
sure thnt Mai one is entitled to Il place
IN the list Of mlliiouaircs, although he
1--we" nk0 one; hut feel sure that jones.
/ OF NEVADA, cannot read his title clear to
/ Il corner III tins Club, in spite of the
! newspaper stones about his success III
! the recent SpcculationS in the Cumstock
stocks. Bat grant for the time that he
is Il millionaire, that will give It's Just a
; rOund dozen III the Senate. Surely VIC
can stand that.
ElClI, ErT. .NOT MiLILONAGRES.
But | shall be told that many of the
other SlNty-tour are rich men, ii not
actually mllliUnaircs, and that they
Ought to DC rccI;"ncd IN, III a trial of the
! uiO warranto which has been served
! upon ''thc money bags OF the Senate. "
| Very well. Lei us run through the list.
I Aldrich, Of Rhode Island, is a successful
! Wholesale grocer, but not Il millionaire.
No, not even Il half millionaire. lie is
said to be worth II quarter Of million.
Icrhap5 30, perhaps not. Allison, of
Iowa, is charged with quarter of a
million. L hope be has it,
AMONG THE BS.
Beck has had to face the same charge
| lie is generally regarded us having dis
| proved it. Beck would like to have
| $500, 900 that he could close his fingers
on. Berry, of Arkansas, Blackburn, Of
! kentucky, and Blair, of New Hampshire,
! haven't together $40, ,OO0-no, nor SO,
! OGO. And if they had they should spend
II before the year was out. Bowen, Of
| Colorado, has one Of those mythical
! fortunes which are credited one day to Il
| lucky hit III mining and the next to a
lucky game OF poker. Butler, of South
Carolina, has the family plantation, or
what is left of it.
IS, D'S AND Els.
Call has an orange grove or two;
! Chase, Of Rhode Island, has factory.
/ Sometimes he IS rich and sometimes he
isn't, like all manufacturers. Clancy, of
New Hampshire, IS thrifty and saving,
( and Is "worth some property" lat not
/ much. Cockrcll, OF Missouri; Coke, Of
I Texas; Colquitt, OF Gcor%ia; Congcr, of
! AllcmGAn; CuIlom, OF Illinois, and
! Dawes, OF Massachusetts, have little else
! besides their salaries. DOlph, Of Oregon,
was rich until Willard failed, but since
then he has been floating on the planks
OF hiS fortune. EdmundS has Il good
! house mere, another in Vermont, and
! perhaps SlOO,0OO saved up. He lives
much more generously than people gen
orally suppose. And his professional in
come is not 50 large as is constantly
claimed, and cannot be for the simple
reason that he gives two-thirds OF his
time to his public duties. Lustis, of
Louisiana, has the remains OF Il grcnt
fortune; lvarts has the elements Of II
great fortune, but as both live expensive
IS neither is likely to build an estate.
FURTHER ROLL CALL.
Frye has a small property in real estate
and factory; George, Of Mississippi, has
his salary, which he saves, by the way,
with view, / suppose, to that great
wealth which some Senators have "snved
out of their salaries" Gibson, Of Lou
ls,"na, has small fortune; Gorman, Of
Maryland, hGs the nucleus of one; GRAY,
Of Delaware, is not a "suspcct;" Hamp-
tom, OF South Carolina, has his home
stead plantation; Harris, of Tennessee,
and Harrison, Of Indiana, have their
salaries and their law practices, Uarri-
sons being one OF the best in the West;
! HawICy has Il two-thirds interest in the
Hartford CoumnC; Ilour has market
house in Worcester; Ingalls, has his
| salary: Jones of ArlLanSoU hoe .tn,,I,,